A Brief History of the FCC on the 30th anniversary of its Founding

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The American Society for Aesthetics Feminist Caucus Committee, which began in 1990 as the Feminist Caucus, actively strategizes how to achieve its goals. These include expanding the range of topics under discussion at annual and divisional meetings, as well as within the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; increasing the number of women and/or feminists on conference programs, who serve as trustees and officers of the ASA, and as authors within the journal and other publications in aesthetics; and extending the range of teaching options in the classroom beyond traditional, mainstream aesthetics. Membership in the committee is open to all ASA members, whose involvement during annual ASA meetings is especially welcomed. In conjunction with the program committee for annual meetings, the Feminist Caucus Committee usually sponsors a special session plus a business lunch meeting, generously subsidized by the ASA. The ASA supports FCC's goals regarding the Gendered Conference Campaign (GCC) that includes the participation of women and members of other historically under-represented and excluded groups.

Please consider sharing your research and teaching syllabi through the FCC Newsletter. Research will automatically be added to the Feminist Aesthetics category of PhilPapers online. Complete this FCC form or email published research citations and/or feminist syllabi to fccasaforum@gmail.com.

The FCC is scheduling a tour of the NMWA (National Museum of Women in the Arts) in Washington, DC., where we'll meet in the lobby at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 15, in advance of the ASA 81st Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA (November 15-18, 2023). Everyone is invited to tour the museum with Peg Brand Weiser (pweiser@uoregon.edu). Please arrive on Tuesday, November 14, or early Wednesday, November 15, in order to travel by Metro subway from the hotel to the National Mall. (Take the Blue line to Metro Center or the Yellow line to Gallery Place.)

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the Feminist Aesthetics Research Prizeto encourage new, unpublished work on feminist aesthetics. The deadline is February 1, 2024. The prize will be $1000, with $1400 for travel to the ASA Annual Meeting to present the unpublished work at a special session at the meeting.

In 2020, the FCC celebrated its 30th anniversary with an online zoom session (due to the cancellation of the in-person conference because of the Covid-19 pandemic) entitled "No Place Like Her." Guest panelists included Guerilla Girl Kathe Kollwitz and Maura Reilly (author of Curatorial Activism, Towards an Ethics of Curating [2018 with Foreword by Lucy Lippard]) plus ASA members - Sue Spaid and Rossen Vetzislavov. Winners of the 30th Anniversary of the Feminist Caucus Committee Essay Prize were Sherri Irvin, "Resisting Body Oppression: An Aesthetic Approach," Feminist Philosophical Quarterly, 3:4 (2017), with Honorable mention to Alia Al-Saji, "Glued to the Image: A Critical Phenomenology of Racialization through Works of Art," JAAC 77:4 (2019). The winning paper was the subject of a panel discussion at the 78th Annual Meeting in November 2020, with comments by A.W. Eaton and Sam Liao. In 2015, the FCC celebrated its 25th anniversary with a full day of workshops, and a celebratory reception.

ASA-sponsored speakers at diversity institutes:

-University of California San Diego Summer Program for Women in Philosophy (SPWP); ASA faculty representatives for this program have included Anne W. Eaton (2015), Sondra Bacharach (2016), Mary Beth Willard (2017), Sarah Worth (2018), Julianne Chung (2019), Alexandra King (2020), and Elizabeth Scarbrough (2021).
- Rutgers University Summer Institute for Diversity. ASA faculty representatives for this program have included Jane Forsey (2015), Anna Christina Ribeiro (2016), Mary Beth Willard (2017), Sarah Worth (2018), James Haile (2019), Christy Mag Uidhir (2020), and Julianne Chung (2021), and Meredith Trexler Drees (2022, 2023).
- Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy at Brown: ASA faculty representatives for this program have included Anne W. Eaton (2016), Shen-yi Liao (2017), James Haile (2018, 2019), and Robbie Kubala (2023).

FCC Officers

Co-chairs: Sue Spaid (suespaid@gmail.com) served as co-chair with Gemma Argüello (gemma.arguellom@gmail.com) from 2019-23. Sue remains as co-chair with Elizabeth Scarbrough (escarbro@fiu.edu) (2021) and Wiebke Deimling (WDeimling@clarku.edu) (2022). (Gemma stepped down to co-chair the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting program committee.)

Sue Spaid is Associate Editor of Aesthetic Investigations. In 2020, she published her first philosophy monograph, The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World, which reflects thirty-five years experience as a critic, gallerist, curator, and museum director. In 2017, she published Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017, her fifth book on art and ecology. In addition to regularly presenting papers at philosophy conferences, she has published chapters in The State of Art Criticism (2008), The Philosophy of Arthur Danto (2013), Arte y Filosofía en Arthur Danto (2016), Advancements in the Philosophy of Design (2017) and articles in journals such as Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Rivista di Estetica, Journal of Somaesthetics, Popular Inquiry, Art Inquiry: Recherche sur les art, and Philosophica.

Elizabeth Scarbrough (she/they) is an associate teaching professor at Florida International University. Scarbrough's research has focused on the beauty of immovable cultural heritage (such as ruins). This research has been published as journal articles (The Philosopher's Magazine, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Applied Philosophy), in book chapters (e.g., Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials), and in more public-facing work (e.g., in Aesthetics for Birds). Scarbrough's interest in the preservation of immovable cultural heritage has given rise to a related interest in the ethics of travel and tourism, most recently publishing, "Are Archaeological Parks the New Amusement Parks? UNESCO World Heritage Status and Tourism" (Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy, 2021). Recent work on the ethics and aesthetics of racist monuments has been published in The Philosopher's Magazine and Aesthetics for Birds. Current projects include work on perfume and memory, cinematic experience, and tourism and gender. ElizabethScarbrough.com

Wiebke Deimling is an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Clark University. Her research focuses on the emotions and on questions about them in ethics and aesthetics. Most of her work is focused on Kant and early modern European philosophy. But she is also interested in contemporary questions about emotions in the arts, e.g. about expression and about the role of emotions in propaganda. Her published work includes "Kant's Theory of Tragedy," Southwest Philosophical Review (2019) and "Moralism about Propaganda," Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics (2015). http://wiebke-deimling.squarespace.com/

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